#45 George

George holds a high school dip­loma and has extens­ive train­ing in organ­ic and per­ma­cul­ture farm­ing. Togeth­er with him, the Farm­ing Excel­lence Cen­ter is now being developed—a teach­ing farm for sus­tain­able agriculture.

The goal is to provide hands-on train­ing for young people in the region while also equip­ping farm­ers with prac­tic­al know­ledge of sus­tain­able farm­ing meth­ods. The cen­ter will demon­strate how agri­cul­tur­al products can be pro­cessed and suc­cess­fully mar­keted along the entire value chain.

In the long term, this will cre­ate a hol­ist­ic agri­cul­tur­al sys­tem where pro­duc­tion, pro­cessing, and mar­ket­ing are organ­ized and strengthened with­in loc­al communities.